Category Archives: tutorial

Gathering stats for your blog

We all like to know who’s been reading our stuff, so here are a couple of methods that you can use to view your web statistics.
Google Analytics
Yes, even though you don’t have control over the template in our wordpress MU installation, you can still insert your own google analytics code.
In the ‘Presentation’ tab of the [...]

A lightbox for your pics

Wordpress is great for words, but not brilliant for pictures. There are ways of integrating with gallery software and other tools, but they’re not very robust in a big multi user blog like ours. Instead, we’ve implemented a simple tool called ‘Slimbox’ which should give everyone access to eye-popping slideshows. It’s easy to use…